Deborah A. DeMott

David F. Cavers Distinguished Professor of Law

School of Law

dad@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School Room 4002, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0360

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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Scholarly Works

Research Handbook on Agency and Intermediation

Book · 2026 Link to item Cite

An Overview of Agency Doctrine

Book section · 2026 Link to item Cite

When Sleepers Awake: Sellers' Regret and Art-Market Intermediaries

Book section · 2026 Link to item Cite

When Agentic AI Met the Common Law of Agency

Journal article Harvard Journal of Law & Technology · 2026 Link to item Cite

Restating the Law in the Shadow of Codes: The ALI in Its Formative Era

Book section · 2023 Link to item Cite

Rogue Brokers and the Limits of Agency Law

Book section · 2022 Link to item Cite

Resale Payment Rights for Artists

Book section · 2022 Cite

The Platform as Agent

Book section · 2022 Link to item Cite

Agents and Advisors

Journal article Florida Law Review Forum · 2022 Link to item Cite

Fiduciary Duties on the Temporal Edges of Agency Relationships

Book section · 2021 Link to item Cite

The Domains of Loyalty: Relationships Between Fiduciary Obligation and Intrinsic Motivation

Journal article William & Mary Law Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

Whistleblowers: Implications for Corporate Governance

Journal article Washington University Law Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

Looking Beyond the Easel: Artists’ Contexts and Resale Payments

Journal article Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy · 2020 Link to item Cite

Fiduciary Principles in Agency Law

Book section · 2019 Link to item Cite

Fiduciary Contours: Perspectives on Mutual Funds and Private Funds

Book section · 2018 Link to item Cite

Culpable Participation in Fiduciary Breach

Book section · 2018 Link to item Cite

Accessory Disloyalty: Comparative Perspectives on Substantial Assistance to Fiduciary Breach

Book section · 2017 Link to item Cite

Corporate Officers as Agents

Journal article Washington & Lee Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Shareholder Derivative Actions: Law and Practice

Book · 2016 Link to item Cite

Defining Agency and Its Scope (II)

Book section · 2016 Link to item Cite

The Poseur as Agent

Book section · 2016 Link to item Cite

Reply to Laura Macgregor, "Defining Agency and Its Scope (I)"

Book section · 2016 Link to item Cite

Fiduciary Breach, Once Removed

Journal article Texas Law Review See Also · 2016 Link to item Cite

Agency in the Alternatives: Common-law Perspectives on Binding the Firm

Book section · 2015 Link to item Cite

Forum-Selection Bylaws Refracted Through an Agency Lens

Journal article Arizona Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Financial Advisors and Tangled Loyalties--the Case of In re Rural Metro

Journal article Australian Law Journal · 2015 Cite

Relationships of Trust and Confidence in the Workplace

Journal article Cornell Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Financial Advisors and Tangled Loyalties--the Case of In re Rural Metro

Journal article Australian Law Journal · 2015 Cite

The Fiduciary Character of Agency and the Interpretation of Instructions

Book section · 2014 Link to item Cite

Restatements and Non-State Codifications of Private Law

Book section · 2014 Link to item Cite

The Contours and Composition of Agency Doctrine: Perspectives from History and Theory on Inherent Agency Power

Journal article University of Illinois Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

The Skeptical Principal

Other Concurring Opinions · 2013 Cite

Internal Compliance Officers in Jeopardy?

Journal article Australian Law Journal · 2013 Link to item Cite

The Crucial But (Potentially) Precarious Position of the Chief Compliance Officer

Journal article Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial, & Commercial Law · 2013 Link to item Cite

Further Perspectives on Corporate Wrongdoing, In Pari Delicto, and Auditor Malpractice

Journal article Washington & Lee Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

"Abandoned...Without a Word of Warning": Perspectives on Maple v. Thomas

Journal article Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2012 Link to item Cite

Regulatory Techniques and Liability Regimes for Asset Managers

Journal article Capital Markets Law Journal · 2012 Link to item Cite

"Introduction," and "Comparative Analysis of the Jurisdictions-The Impact of Regulatory Frameworks on an Asset Manager's Private Law Duties and LIability"

Book section · 2012 Link to item Cite

United States Law

Book section · 2012 Cite

Artful Good Faith: An Essay on Law, Custom, and Intermediaries in Art Markets

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2012 Link to item Cite

The Stages of Scandal and the Roles of General Counsel

Journal article Wisconsin Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

The Milieu of the Boardroom and the Precinct of Employment

Journal article North Carolina Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

Investing in Work: Wilkes as an Employment Law Case

Journal article Western New England Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

Indemnification and Advancement Through an Agency Lens

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2011 Link to item Cite

Causation in the Fiduciary Realm

Journal article Boston University Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

Fiduciary Constraints on Mutual Fund Fees

Journal article Australian Law Journal · 2010 Cite

Ratification: Useful But Uneven

Journal article European Review of Private Law · 2009 Link to item Cite

The Restatement (Third) of Agency and the Unauthorised Agent in US Law

Book section · 2009 Link to item Cite

Agency: United States Civil Law

Book section · 2009 Link to item Cite

Guests at the Table?: Independent Directors in Family-Influenced Public Companies

Journal article Journal of Corporation Law · 2008 Link to item Cite

Irrevocable Proxies

Journal article Australian Law Journal · 2008 Link to item Cite

The First Restatement of Agency: What Was the Agenda?

Journal article Southern Illinois University Law Journal · 2007 Link to item Cite

Disloyal Agents

Journal article Alabama Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Agency By Analogy: A Comment on Odious Debt

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2007 Link to item Cite

Agency Law in Cyberspace

Journal article Australian Law Journal · 2006 Link to item Cite

Inside the Corporate Veil: The Character and Consequences of Executives' Duties

Journal article Australian Journal of Corporate Law · 2006 Link to item Cite

Breach of Fiduciary Duty: On Justifiable Expectations of Loyalty and Their Consequences

Journal article Arizona Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Restatement (Third) of Agency

Book · 2006 Cite

The Texture of Loyalty

Book section · 2006 Link to item Cite

The Discrete Roles of General Counsel

Journal article Fordham Law Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

Bank Conflicts Raise Threats of Lawsuits over M&A

Journal article International Financial Law Review · 2004 Link to item Cite

Shareholder Nominations of Directors

Journal article Australian Law Journal · 2004 Cite

Restatement (Third) of Agency

Book · 2004 Link to item Cite

Fiduciary Obligation in the High Court of Australia

Book section · 2004 Cite

In Praise of a Bibulous Author

Book section · 2004 Cite

When is a Principal Charged with an Agent's Knowledge?

Journal article Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law · 2003 Link to item Cite

Statutory Ingredients in Common-Law Change: Issues in the Development of Agency Doctrine

Book section · 2003 Cite

Corporate Litigation in the US and UK

Journal article American Journal of Comparative Law · 2003 Link to item Cite

Acquisition Agreement: Material Adverse Change Clauses

Journal article Australian Law Journal · 2002 Cite

Fluid Relationships in Transitional Times: A Comment on Employees and Corporate Governance

Journal article Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal · 2002 Link to item Cite

Restatement (Third) of Agency

Book · 2002 Link to item Cite

Restatement (Third) of Agency

Book · 2002 Link to item Cite

Shareholders as Principals

Book section · 2002 Link to item Cite

Transatlantic Perspectives on Partnership Law: Risk and Instability

Journal article Journal of Corporation Law · 2001 Link to item Cite

Shareholder Challenges to Executive Remuneration

Journal article Australian Law Journal · 2000 Cite

Teacher's Manual to Fiduciary Obligation, Agency and Partnership: Duties in Ongoing Business Relationships (1991).

Book · 2000 Cite

The Figure in the Landscape: A Comparative Sketch of Directors' Self-Interested Transactions

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 1999 Link to item Cite

The Mechanisms of Control

Journal article Connecticut Journal of International Law · 1999 Link to item Cite

The Lawyer as Agent

Journal article Fordham Law Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

Legislating Business Judgment - A Comment from the United States

Journal article Company & Securities Law Journal · 1998 Cite

The Faces of Loyalty: A Comment on Hillman, Loyality to the Firm: A Statement of General Principles on the Duties of Partners Withdrawing from Law Firms

Journal article Washington & Lee Law Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

A Revised Prospectus for a Third Restatement of Agency

Journal article U.C. Davis Law Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

Organizational Incentives to Care about the Law

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 1997 Link to item Cite

Agency Principles and Large Block Shareholders

Journal article Cardozo Law Review · 1997 Link to item Cite

Appropriating Form: A Comment on Summers, How Law is Formal and Why It Matters

Journal article Cornell Law Review · 1997 Link to item Cite

Agency and the Unincorporated Firm: Reflections on Design on the Same Plane of Interest

Journal article Washington & Lee Law Review · 1997 Link to item Cite

Contesting the Fiducial Line: Legal Theory and the Duty to Be Loyal

Book section · 1996 Link to item Cite

Trust and Tension in Corporations

Journal article Cornell Law Review · 1996 Link to item Cite

Proprietary Norms in Corporate Law: An Essay on Reading Gambotto in the United States

Book section · 1996 Link to item Cite

Fiduciary Preludes: Likely Issues for LLCs

Journal article University of Colorado Law Review · 1995 Link to item Cite

Our Partners' Keepers? Agency Dimensions of Partnership Relationships

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 1995 Link to item Cite

Review

Journal article Academe · 1995 Cite

Do You Have the Right to Remain Silent?: Duties of Disclosure in Business Transactions

Journal article Delaware Journal of Corporate Law · 1994 Link to item Cite

Pensions and Corporate Restructuring in American Industry: A Crisis of Regulation

Journal article Contemporary Gerontology · 1994 Cite

Self-Dealing Transactions in Nonprofit Corporations

Journal article Brooklyn Law Review · 1994 Link to item Cite

Down the Rabbit-Hole and into the Nineties: Selected Issues of Accountability in the Wake of Eighties-Style Transactions in Control

Journal article George Washington Law Review · 1993 Link to item Cite

Foreword

Journal article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1993 Link to item Cite

Foreword to Equitable Doctrines and Remedies in Contemporary Regulatory Settings

Journal article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1993 Link to item Cite

Oppressed but Not Betrayed: A Comparative Assessment of Canadian Remedies for Minority Shareholders and Nonshareholder Constituents

Journal article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1993 Link to item Cite

Ethical Issues in Shareholder Litigation

Book section · 1993 Cite

Directors' Duty of Care and the Business Judgment Rule: American Precedents and Australian Choices

Journal article Bond Law Review · 1992 Link to item Cite

Fiduciary Obligations Under Intellectual Siege: Contemporary Challenges to the Duty to be Loyal

Journal article Osgoode Hall Law Journal · 1992 Link to item Cite

Rollups of Limited Partnerships: Questions of Regulation and Fairness

Journal article Washington University Law Quarterly · 1992 Link to item Cite

An Overview of Corporation Law

Book section · 1992 Cite

Fiduciary Obligation, Agency and Partnership: Duties in Ongoing Business Relationships

Book · 1991 Link to item Cite

Puzzles and Parables: Defining Good Faith in the MBO Context

Journal article Wake Forest Law Review · 1990 Link to item Cite

Trends in Officer and Director Liability--A Comparative Analysis

Book section · 1990 Cite

The Biggest Deal Ever

Other Duke Law Magazine · 1990 Cite

Introduction--The Biggest Deal Ever

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 1989 Link to item Cite

Directors' Duties in Management Buyouts and Leveraged Recapitalizations

Journal article Ohio State Law Journal · 1989 Link to item Cite

Assessing Investors' Long Term Commitment

Other Legal Times · 1989 Cite

Limiting Directors' Liability

Journal article Washington University Law Quarterly · 1988 Link to item Cite

Beyond Metaphor: An Analysis of Fiduciary Obligation

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 1988 Link to item Cite

Comparative Dimensions of Takeover Regulation

Book section · 1988 Link to item Cite

Adventures in Finance

Journal article Michigan Law Review · 1988 Link to item Cite

Five Key Issues in Takeover Regulation

Other Duke Law Magazine · 1988 Cite

The Corporate Fox and the Shareholders' Hen House: Reflections on Alford v. Shaw

Journal article North Carolina Law Review · 1987 Link to item Cite

Federalizing Securities Market Law: The U.S. Experience with Takeover Regulation

Journal article Company & Security Law Journal · 1987 Cite

Shareholder Litigation in the United States and Australia: Common Problems, Uncommon Solutions

Journal article Sydney Law Review · 1987 Link to item Cite

Demand in Derivative Actions: Problems of Interpretation and Function

Journal article U.C. Davis Law Review · 1986 Link to item Cite

Perspectives on Choice of Law for Corporate Internal Affairs

Journal article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1985 Link to item Cite

Pac-Man Tender Offers

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 1985 Link to item Cite

A Comment on Mandatory Buyouts

Other Duke Law Magazine · 1985 Cite

Foreword

Journal article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1985 Open Access Link to item Cite

Current Issues in Tender Offer Regulation: Lessons from the British

Journal article New York University Law Review · 1983 Link to item Cite

Book Note

Journal article Journal of Legal Education · 1983 Cite

Defending the Quiet Life: The Role of Special Counsel in Director Terminations of Derivative Suits

Journal article Notre Dame Lawyer · 1982 Link to item Cite

Corporations at the Crossroads: Governance and Reform

Book · 1979 Link to item Cite

Reweaving the Corporate Veil: Management Structure and the Control of Corporate Information

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 1977 Link to item Cite

Foreword: Reweaving the Corporate Veil

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 1977 Link to item Cite